Mr. DESMOND MACCARTHY : Modem Men of Letters-IV, Henrik Ibsen '
IN this fourth talk of his series, Mr. MacCarthy is to deal with the great Scandinavian dramatist, one of whose first plays, The Pretenders, is being broadcast in the series of Twelve Great Plays on November 19. It is difficult to realize now that when Ibsen first wrote, the whole of the English press combined to revile him. Yet he broke into the Victorian theatre like a great wind from the sea, bringing it new life, new ideas, and a new technique of playwriting.